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!) Growing so easily from seed makes me wonder why I've never spotted it in any seed catalogues before, but there it is in both the Chiltern Seeds and Thompson & Morgan catalogues - a packet containing 150 seeds costs less than a third of the price I paid

season for me to name whatever was brought my way.It was the Nunhead Cemetery Open Day (it's more like a fete really) and for the umpteenth year we ran the now famous Bug Hunt. It's very easy: the kids collect a plastic container, look for bugs

the best flavoured tomato, and to my mind it has to be 'Gardener's Delight'. They're deep red (surely tomatoes have to be red), bite-sized, juicy, sweet and full of flavour. If you haven't grown it then make a point of doing so next year.While 'Gardener

of coming up with the name of the plant, I was instantly transported back to the kitchen of the house I grew up in. On red floor tiles just inside the pantry, next to bottles of squash and my mum's wine-making kit, was a brown ceramic vase containing dried

.Bulbs need enough time in the cold and dark for the root system to develop and support flowering. Use a thermometer to ascertain that your shed or garden is cold enough (it should be around 10°C). Once inside, place the bulbs or corms in a cool, north

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One of the most efficient ways of recycling kitchen waste is to use a worm bin. These purpose-built containers house a colony of brandling worms, which consume fruit and vegetable waste, producing a nutritious worm compost.As well as producing a

elderberry wine (except to say that the eating of unfermented berries is not good for the digestion as raw berries contain traces of cyanide), but there are few things more delicious in summer than elderflower cordial or elderflower sorbet. Both

uncouth, but to me it's all rhubarb. Perhaps someone could enlighten me on a world of culinary experiences I have yet to discover. There's a National Plant Collection of rhubarb at the RHS Harlow Carr Gardens near Harrogate containing well over 100

-fruiting raspberries do need staking: tie them to a fence or wires or they will flail about.We used to grow both kinds on our last plot, but since we now have a large strawberry bed, the first half of summer is well provided for. Half of our raspberry bed contains